Sawing-machine.



PATENTED JAN. 13, 1903.

R. 0L GOSSETT. SAWING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 25, 1902.

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SAWING MACHINE.

APPLIGATION FILED APR. 25, 1902.

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RICHARD CLARENCE GOSSETT, OF MOSCOW, IDAHO.

SAWING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming-part of Letters Patent No. 718,201, dated January 13, 1903.

Application filed April 25, 1902.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RICHARD CLARnNo GOSSETT, a citizen. of the United States, residing at Moscow, in the county of Latah and State of Idaho, have invented a new and useful Sawing-Machine, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to that class of ma; chines known as drag-saws, employed generally for the purpose of sawing down standing timber and also adapted to saw the timber into logs or billets, and the invention consists in certain novel featu res of construction,as hereinafter shown and described,and specified in the claims.

In the drawings illustrative of the invention, Figure 1 is a side elevation. Fig.2 is a plan View. Fig. 3 is a rear elevation. Fig. 4 is a detail perspective View of the'saw-frame with the saw arranged to operate horizontally or in position to out standing timber and the like. Fig. 5 is an enlarged detached perspective view of the main cross-head with a portion of the saw and the supplemental cross-head. Fig. 6 is a cross-section on the line II of Fig. 1. I

The framework is represented at 10, of the usual timber construction, and provided at its upper part with a main driver-shaft 11, having a face-plate 12, connected to be driven by gearing l3 and 14, as shown, whereby an increased speed may be imparted to the driver-shaft. 1

Supported upon cranks and 16in ashaft 17 near the lower part of the framework are two bearing-wheels 18 19, adapted when'the cranks are depressed to project below the lower line of the framework and afford means for assisting in the transportation of the device. One end of shaft 17 is provided with an operating arm or lever 17, by which the shaft may be actuated to depress the wheels,

and which is adapted to engage a stop 17 upon the frame 10 when in itslowermost position to maintain the arm and wheels in their depressed position as long as required, anda a similar stop 17 will also be provided to hold the arm and wheels in their elevated position when not required.

The saw-frame consists of four spaced bars 21, 21 21 and 21, the bars 21 21 forming Serial No. 104,670. (No model.)

one side of the frame and the bars 21 21 forming the other side of the frame.

'The bars 21 21* are connected at their forward ends by a block 22, and the bars 21 21 are similarly connected by a corresponding block 22. At their inner ends the bars are similarly connected by blocks 23, 23, and 23*, as shown.

The block 23 is removable from between the bars 21 and 21 and adapted to be inserted between the bars 21 and 21 at the rear ends, as shown in Fig. 4, when the machine is adapted to saw standing timber and the like, as hereinafter explained.

The bars and blocks are all united by bolts 24, as shown, so as to be readily disconnected when required.

A cross-head 25 is disposed slidably between the bars 21 and 21, andasimilar crosshead 25 is disposed between the bars 21 and 21, each cross-head member having longitudinal ribs engaging corresponding horizontal groove or. guide-channel 21 in the contiguous faces of the bars 21 21 and 21 21, respectively, as shown.

The cross-head members are connected by transverse pins 26 26 near their ends, as shown, the pin 26 supporting the saw 27 and the pin 26 connected to one end of a connecting-rod 28, the other end of the latter being connected to the crank-pin 12 of the faceplate 12. By this means the revolution of the shaft 11 willcause the saw-to be reciprocated in the saw-frame.

The saw-frame is supported at its rear end upon astud-shaft29,extending from theframe 10, as shown.

Supportedupon the frame 10 isa rock-shaft 30, having arms 30 and 30 extending from its ends, the arm 30 connected to an operating-rod 30, passing rearwardly and engaged by a keeper 31 upon the frame 10, and the arm 30 connected to a yoke-frame 32, em bracing the saw-frame and pivotally connected to the bars 2 a and 21, as shown.

The rod 30 is provided with a series of spaced notches'33, adapted to engage a stop 34 in the frame 10 and maintained in normal engagement therewith by a spring 35. this means the rod 30 may be adjusted to any extent to oscillate the shaft 30 to elevate and depress the forward end of the saw-frame to regulate the action of the saw and adapt it to the work required.

A spring 36 will be connected to the sawframe and carrying a grooved roller 36*,adapted to engage the back of the saw and serve as a tension means to feed the saw and maintain it in operative position. WVhen thus arranged, the saw may be employed in sawing logs into billets or in sawing cut timber into logs or for any other purpose wherein a vertically-acting saw is required and which can be readily adapted to any-sized timber or log.

The face-plate 12 will be provided with extra holes 12 at varying distances from the shaft 11 and adapted to receive the crank-pin 12, so that the stroke of the saw may be varied, if required.

supplemental crosshead 37 will be provided to enable the connection to be made between the cross-head members 25 and 25 and the connecting-rod 28 when the machine is to be adapted to operate on standing timber or the like, this supplemental cross-head being formed with a cavity 37, adapted to embrace the connecting-rod 28 and having perforations 37 to receive a supplemental pin 26", while the body of the supplemental head is perforated reversely to the perforations 37 and adapted to engage the cross-head members 25 25 and be secured therein by the pin 26, as shown in Fig. 5.

To adapt the machine to operate horizontally or to saw down standing timber, the sawframe is removed from the stud-shaft and the yoke-frame 32 and the block 23 removed and inserted between the bars 21 21 as shown in Fig. 4, the bars having suitable perforations for the bolts, as shown.

The supplemental cross-head 37 is then connected in the frame, as above described, and the frame turned over on its side and the connecting-rod 28 connected to the pin 26 and the frame connected to the stud-shaft 21 by means of a perforation 39 through the bars 21 and 21 as indicated, and the yoke-frame 32 connected to the bars 21 and 21. This places the frame in the same relations to the operative mechanism as before, but with the saw reversed or adapted to act horizontally.

The supplemental pin 26 may be carried in the supplemental aperture 39 when not in use. By this means a very convenient, durable, and cheaply-constructed machine is produced, having few parts, and therefore not liable to get out of order or become otherwise disarranged.

The machine may be made in any size desired and may be modified and changed in minor details without affecting the spirit of the invention or sacrificing any of its advantages.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is 1. In a sawing-machine, the combination with a framework comprising four spaced timbers, of a double saw-carrying cross-head composed of members separably connected, the member constituting the one cross-head being secured between, and serving to space the members constituting the other crosshead.

2. In a sawing-machine, a guiding-frame composed of four spaced timbers, in combination with a composite saw-carryingcross-head comprising members disposed at right angles to each other and engaging the slots at right angles to each other in said guiding-frame.

3. In a sawing-machine, a saw-carrying cross-head comprising a pair of members spaced by the saw-head and connected by a bolt passing through said members and saw, said members being adapted for the reception between them at their free ends, of an auxiliary cross-head disposed at right angles thereto and adapted to be secured in position by the bolt normally serving for the securement of the operating-pitman.

4. In a sawing-machine, the combination with a guiding-frame, of a saw-carrying crosshead composed of two members spaced by the saw-head, and an auxiliary cross-head engaging between the members composing the crosshead proper, at right angles thereto and having means for connection with the operatingpitman.

5. In a sawing-machine, the combination of the main frame having a stud-shaft, a guidingframe detachably engaging said studshaft and having openings, at right angles to each other, for engaging the same, and means detachably connected with said frame for adjusting the same upon the stud-shaft as a fulcrum, whereby the said frame may be mounted and receive adjustment in two different positions at right angles to each other.

6. Inasawing-machine,asupporting-framework, a saw connected to said framework, means carried by said framework for operating said saw, a shaft having cranks and journaled upon said framework, bearing-wheels carried by said cranks, a lever-arm disposed to operate said shaft, whereby said wheels are caused to be forcibly moved into position below the line of said framework, and a stop adapted to maintain said lever-arm in its depressed position, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

RICHARD CLARENCE GOSSETT.

Witnesses:

W. F. EDMONDSON, F. H. GOSSETT. 

